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Over 80 million learners and 17,000 businesses already learn with Udemy. If you’re excited by change, energized by learning, and ready to have a real impact, you’ll feel right at home.
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About You
You are a motivated, meticulous engineer with a team-oriented approach and exceptional problem-solving skills, who aligns with our core values. You are organized and proactive and take the initiative to prioritize your own work and projects effectively.
Fostering a workplace culture of 'individual humility and collective pride’, we look for team players. We value every voice and encourage mutual recognition of accomplishments. Your role involves the continuous celebration of both small and large milestones along with our global team.
About Your Skills
- Continuous Learning – A strong desire to keep learning and growing, especially in technical competencies and organizational knowledge.
- Analytical Problem Solving – The ability to break down moderately complex problems and find effective solutions using cross-functional communication and systems thinking.
- Proactiveness and Initiative – Taking ownership of projects, prioritizing work independently, and leading moderately complex projects to completion.
- Team-Oriented Mindset – Valuing collaboration, mutual recognition of accomplishments, and fostering a culture of humility and collective pride.
- Adaptability in Technology – Comfort in using various technologies while maintaining services and optimizing code and processes.
About This Role
Udemy is searching for a Software Engineer who embodies our values of authenticity, continuous learning, experimentation, being results-oriented, and being individually humble, yet collectively proud. We expect you to be comfortable with a combination of frontend and backend technologies. Our ideal candidate will be comfortable addressing moderately complex problems, including navigating projects with ambiguous parameters.
As an organization, we are always learning. This manifests in our habitual learning approach, constructive debates and utilizing our own platform for continuous development. Your dedication to growth, openness to robust discussions and leveraging our solutions for learning will be pivotal.
What you'll be doing
- Implementing services using your skills in Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis/Elasticache, GraphQL, Kubernetes and user interfaces in ReactJS, Typescript, MobX or closely related technologies to meet your team's objectives.
- Deploying, monitoring and maintaining a set of critical services in our infrastructure using Datadog and FireHydrant Signals.
- Building user experiences that adhere to a high level of accessibility standards.
- Applying analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking to ensure smooth execution of product features.
- Optimizing code and processes to help your team achieve their goals.
- Leading, coordinating, executing, and delivering moderately complex projects at scale.
- Managing complexity within your team while concurrently interacting with teams in adjacent domains.
What you’ll have
- Have a BS/MS in CS or equivalent discipline; or equivalent alternative degree or work experience.
- 2+ years of professional software development experience
- Fluency in English language
- Technical competence in Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, SQL, GraphQL, Kubernetes or closely related technologies.
- Practitioner in ReactJS, Typescript, frontend state management, HTML, CSS.
- Solid understanding of domain-driven design, event-driven development, monolith decomposition patterns.
- Working knowledge of analytical problem solving, cross-functional communication, and systems thinking.
- Ability to break moderately complex problems and projects to deliverable milestones.
We understand that not everyone will match each of the above qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you!
Application deadline: 24/10/25
You’ll grow here.
Learning is part of the job. You’ll get full access to Udemy courses, a monthly UDay to invest in yourself, and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve. Many people are diving into AI lately, but what you focus on is up to you.
AI is real here.
We use it in the way we learn and the way we work. You’ll have the space and tools to experiment, apply, and get better at using AI in practical ways.
You’ll own your work.
We trust people to lead, make decisions, and follow through. You don’t need to wait for permission or layers of approval to have an impact.
You’ll build with others.
We collaborate openly and shape ideas together. Everyone has a voice, and good thinking is welcomed from any direction.
You’ll see your impact.
What you build helps people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward. You’ve got the experience, why not use it to help others gain theirs?
Bring your curiosity. We’ll bring the platform and the support. Let’s LEARN together.
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